Some printers have built-in Wi-Fi (a natural match for the iPad).
(The following steps work for any iPad, including the iPad 2 and both Wi-Fi and 3G models.)Įven though you can add a USB port to your iPad with Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit ( ), it’s no use plugging in a USB printer, because iOS doesn’t know how to talk to printers via USB. Printing from the iPad can be easy if your needs are modest, but even if you require extensive printing control, there is, as they say, an app for that. Among other things, the iPad is a great way to save paper: It lets you carry around all kinds of digital documents that you might otherwise have had to print.īut from time to time you may still need to print data that’s on your iPad-business documents that you created in Pages and Numbers, for example, or driving directions to hand someone who’s not packing silicon.
